Holder for shipping wall-boards.



A. WHITTIEMORF.

HOLDER FOR SHIPPING WALL BOARDS.

APPLICATION FIL ED FEB. 1,1915.

Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

Invenbor fludem'ied Whibbsmorc MANUFACTURING COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

HOLDER FOR SHIPPING WALL-BOARDS.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, AUDENRIED \VHITTE- MORE, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Holders for Shipping Wall-Boards, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in holders for shipping articles, one of the objects 'being to produce a neat, durable and inexpensive holder adapted to contain large, flat articles, such as sheets of wall-board or plaster-board.

Another object is to produce a very light holder of this kind constructed to serve as a very efficient means for protecting large sheets of wall-board.

Figure I is a perspective view showing a pile of wall-boards and triangular pockets fitted to the corners of the pile of wallboards. Fig. II is a detail view of one of the triangular pockets. Fig. III is a perspective view of the holder as it appears when the package is ready for shipment. Fig. IV is an enlarged end elevation of the parts shown in Fig. III. Fig. V is an enlarged section taken approximately on the line V-V, Fig. III.

A designates walI-boardspiled one above the other and arranged between upper and lower packing sheets 1 and 2 respectively. The packing sheets 1 and 2serve as protectors for the top and bottom of the pile of wall-boards and they are substantially equal in length and width to the corresponding measurements of the wall-boards. The corners of the wall-boards are protected by triangular corner pockets 3 which preferably inclose'the corners of the pile comprising the packing sheets 1 and 2 as well as the corners of the wall-boards A.

The margins of the package are protected by long narrow marginal packing sheets 4 and 5 folded around the margins of the material to be shipped so as to inclose .the inner portions of the corner pockets 3. These marginal sheets 4 and 5 are preferably approximately U-shaped in cross-section, and the sheets 4 atthe side margins of the package preferably overlap portions of the sheets Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 1, 1915.

marginal side and end Patented Jan. 1%, 1916. Serial No. 5,449.

5 at the end margins of the package. The packing elements 1, 2, 3, 4L and 5 are preferably made-of heavy paper such as chipboard or. pasteboard.

6 designates marginal tie members, pass ing around the side margins of the package, and 7 designates marginal tie members passing around the end margins of the package. The different elements are also tied together by means of an intermediate tie member 8 parallel with the tie members 6, and intermediate tie members 9 parallel with the tie members 7. The different tie members are preferably made of metallic tape and they are preferably interlaced with each other as shown in Fig. III.

10 designates buckles connecting the ends of the tie members.

It will be noted that the different packing elements are so constructed and arranged that they may be very firmly secured together by the marginal tie members 6 and 7 at the margins of the package.

IVall-boards vary in length and width but are ordinarily of such dimensions as 48" :120, 48"XlO8", and 32xl20", and it has heretofore been quite difficult to pack these large cumbersome articles for shipment. The corner pockets 3, and the marginal members -i and 5 of my package, may be used in packing wall-boards of different dimensions, and the light package produced by the combination and arrangement of parts I have shown is well adapted to withstand the rough or careless handling to which. shipping packages are subjected.

A holder for shipping piled wall-boards comprising upper and lower packing sheets, separable triangular corner pockets into which the corners of the pile and upper and lower packing sheetsare inserted, folded packing sheets overlapping the body and ends of the pile and upper and lower packing sheets and the corner pockets and overlapped at the corner pockets, and longitudinal and transverse tie members surrounding the body and edges of i the packing sheets and the folds of the marginal side and end packing sheets.

AUDENRIED VVHITTEMORE. In the presence of- A. B. JACKSON, RUTH H. EDDINGFIELD.

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